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Rollin Kirby

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Rollin Kirby
Kirby c. 1922
OccupationCartoonist
Known forPulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Signed drawing of Rollin Kirby by Manuel Rosenberg. 1926

Rollin Kirby (September 4, 1875 in Galva, Illinois – May 8, 1952 in New York, New York) was an American political cartoonist. In 1922 he was chronologically the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, an honor that he would receive three times.

Kirby worked as a cartoonist at the New York Mail, New York World and the New York Post. His Pulitzer Prizes were for cartoons "On the Road to Moscow" (1921), "News from the Outside World" (1924), and "Tammany" (1928).

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  • Webster's Biographical Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Co., 1980.
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